Thanks for sharing Tom 👍 I know Belfast got bombed but I didn't know what part
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
Me neither Paul.
@tacraling
8 ай бұрын
This was a very good video, Tom. The Belfast Blitz is often forgotten outside of Northern Ireland because of the impact on places like London, Coventry, etc. Belfast actually took a real hammering, and it should be remembered.
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
Yes indeed T. Belfast's and indeed Northern Irelands' massive contribution to the WW2 war effort and the Blitz deaths is largely forgotten at Westminster. Over the war years 300,000 American troops trained and then passed through N Ireland before heading to Europe and beyond. There were naval and aircraft bases all over the place. H&W manufactured ships and tanks. Shells and ammunition were also manufactured in Belfast. The Germans knew all this of course. This is why they flew so far from home to blitz it.
@chriswardlow9441
8 ай бұрын
It brings you to a point of despair Tom, what is happening now and what happened in the past, looking at the memorial stone with the names of people lost says it all complete families wiped out,and for what at the end of the day.
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
Exactly Chris ....and our successive governments have done the same extensive bombing in places like Libya Iraq. Afghanistan and now Yemen. How many totally innocent families have been blown to bits in these bombing raids. Bombs don't discriminate. Yet few in the media dares to criticize.
@shaunmckenna1923
8 ай бұрын
Hello Tom , this was interesting as I was just reading about what happened to all the people that lost there homes ,I was curious to know how the Governments helped the people with re housing and to how much they got in compensation. Thanks Tom.
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
I have no idea Shaun. The N I Belfast Blitz museum would be the ones who would definitely know.
@shaunmckenna1923
8 ай бұрын
@@TomMcClean I did find out people were placed into what home they could find , and depending on the amount of damage they had they were given up to 500 pounds that was in London.
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
Right Shaun. I've never investigated this. I always imagined though that there would be some provision made for them. I'll have to check this out at the N I Blitz War Musem down in central Belfast.
@AdventuresUnseen24
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing Tom. We are new subscribers. 😊
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
Hey many thanks for that support BGPNA! Wow you have a lot of interesting material on your channel. I'm also interested in a lot of what you cover. -Old history, myths and legends, ancient burial sites, old churches, old cemeteries, and those in them etc I simply wish to spark an interest in folk as to what is out there to go see and do research on. I don't aim to be professional about presentation etc. My channel has been described as unpolished rustic in outlook. lol Best wishes from the Belfast Castlereagh hills of Northern Ireland
@martynweir8594
8 ай бұрын
Great video, listened to a podcast on the belfast blitz by Dan Snow, titiled belfst blitz very interesting, generally our politicians didn't believe we would be attacked, and the orange men still wanted there 12th holidays, you couldn't make it up
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
Yes Martyn, Westminster and Stormont both miscalculated big time. The majority stupidly believed that the Luftwaffe would never attempt such an audacious plan to bomb Belfast,-it being so far away. When the first raid happened, heaven and earth should have been moved, to get people away from Belfast and to upgrade the very weak air defense cover! If they ever did, it came too late and the old often used phrase was probably rolled out, -'lessons have been learned'. Belfast was a sitting duck. Best wishes from the Belfast Castlereagh hills.
@mikedrown2721
8 ай бұрын
Did your parents experience the blitz Tom or were they farther out in the country? I would surely get the hee bee gee bees if l was there.... yikes! Thanks Tom
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
No mike. My dad was a school master outside Banbridge. That was 26 miles away from Belfast. All was quiet there. It was very rural. Belfast was a hiving centre of industrial military-making eg tanks, ships, shells. Teachers were exempt from conscription but there was no conscription in N Ireland anyway.
@MikaelFlyer
8 ай бұрын
My grand dad had had tuberculosis so wasn't allowed into the army but was instead a homeguard and he was on the roofs of factories in the city centre on all three nights doing fire watch. He lived just off the Antrim road near Duncairn church. One morning when he returned home all the other houses in his street were gone, levelled, and all his neighbours killed. Bodies littered about the place. His house was the last standing of the terrace. Indeed the British gov have engaged in needless bombings at the tax payers expense, and for what.
@TomMcClean
8 ай бұрын
That must have have been such a dreadful experience m. No counselling and thoughts of mental health trauma back in those days! Yes our recent governments Blair et all have reigned terror down on people and as you say all for what. There's always enough money found when it comes to killing people.
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